Legendary Italian actress Sophia Loren, one of the last stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, will celebrate her 90th birthday in Rome on Friday 20 September. The Italian culture ministry and Cinecittà film studios will mark the milestone by hosting a private party for the Oscar-winning actress and her family, with guests from all over the world expected to wish the star a happy birthday. 

There will be further celebrations in Loren's honour overseas, news agency ANSA reports, with a retrospective of her films scheduled at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles in November. Born Sofia Scicolone in Rome in 1934, the cinema icon began her film career after finishing as a finalist in the Miss Italia 1950 beauty pageant.